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some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one Posted Mar 8, 2002
They might be quokkas instead. They look a bit like 
s, but are marsupials.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 8, 2002
Perhaps they just couldn't lift the backpacks...?
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beanfoto Posted Mar 8, 2002
Well it was a long flight and the local bunnies speak so nicely....
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beanfoto Posted Mar 15, 2002
Anyone want to send a wave to the bunnies when I pass them over Easter?
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Mauritania Posted Mar 15, 2002
The Former Galactic Empire is ran by a man older than Slartibartfast.
Iain Duncun Smith is the leader of the conservative party.
Johnny Vegas visits the Beauty's Castle chat room.
Together Microsoft and Coca Cola earn more in a year than all the countries in Africa.
Fenchurch is a brunette.
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Tonto BA (Hons) Posted Mar 20, 2002
My mobile phone has a sickly light blue colour cover on it!
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Mauritania Posted Mar 20, 2002
I am really a Grand Admiral
Earth is a small blue green planet
Banks can help people with high interests accounts, ISA's, Internet finance and various other means of keeping money and making it grow.
Paper can be made of trees and paper (recycling)
My moblie phone is older than Slartibartfast.
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Z Phantom Posted Mar 20, 2002
not sure exacaly how true this is, so please don't try it,
It used to be (and may still be due to some 
rules) leagal to shoot a scotsman in Newcastle (my home town in North-East England) as long as he was in the city centre and it was after midnight.
like I said don't try it....
Z Phantom 
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Mar 20, 2002
until quite recently, Berwick upon Tweed (being a Fiefdom and effectively outside of the United Kingdom) was still at war with Germany having been excluded from the Treaty of Versailles ...
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Mauritania Posted Mar 20, 2002
I am from Hadrian Park, North Tyneside. Is this true because I know some Scots which I really hate (No offense to all Scottish people apart from the people I hate). Anyway, where do you live?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 20, 2002
My mobile phone is so old it's only good as a bookend.
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Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki Posted Mar 20, 2002
In the UK, the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was established before (and still generates more money than) the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) ...
Also, my mobile phone is so kak it's only good for protecting my vitals against the unprovoked arrows of anonymous geordies ... 
... but only when I'm in Newcastle city centre on a tuesday in May four days after Christmas while the moon is full and the leather-back turtles migration pattern is at it's nadir.
People's Republic of Berwick On Tweed
Researcher 188007 Posted Mar 20, 2002
Whew! That's all the backlog read then.
And now: some vaguely linguistical inconsequentialities:
My other alias, Jake Novgorod, takes his name from what is indeed the oldest large town in Russia. It means the same as the first one.
Russian is not a phonetic language, but it's quite close. Almost perfect is Finnish, which was, incidentally, the inspiration behind Quenya, an ineffably useless but pretty language invented by an obscure Oxford don.
There are 49 Inuit words for 'snow'. No, there are four really, but, like with the spider-swallowing, these rumours can just keep on snowballing
'Adder' and 'apron' used to be 'nadder' (cf German 'Natter') and 'napron'. Due to the interesting-sounding but sadly not effect of liaison, 'a nadder' became 'an adder'.
The 'p' in 'ptarmigan' (a kind of grouse) has never been pronounced. Some crazed philologist decided this word must be Greek and added a silent 'p' to the front.
'Whisky' is an anglicisation of 'uisce beatha' literally meaning 'water of life'; 'akvavit' is a Swedishised Latin version of this and 'vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
Pangrams: the most famous 26-letter one is
'Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck'.
This describes the situation in which a wryneck woodpecker from the grasslands of Africa climbed up the side of a male yak that is grazing on sacred Muslim-owned land. But of course! 
The Union of Soviet Specialist Republic of Newcastle upon Tyne
Mauritania Posted Mar 21, 2002
Communists are great, if you are poor
Nazism is great, if you hate everyone
Egypt is great, if you want to get shot at
Earth is great, if happen to live somewhere else.
The Union of Soviet Specialist Republic of Newcastle upon Tyne
beanfoto Posted Mar 22, 2002
In the good ol U.S. of A their version of the R.S.P.C.A. carry guns.
The Union of Soviet Specialist Republic of Newcastle upon Tyne
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 22, 2002
But, then again, they're more likely to be called out to minister to an injured and grouchy grizzly bear than the RSPCA... 
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- 1381: some bloke who tried to think of a short, catchy, pithy name and spent five sleepless nights trying but couldn't think of one (Mar 8, 2002)
- 1382: beanfoto (Mar 8, 2002)
- 1383: beanfoto (Mar 8, 2002)
- 1384: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 8, 2002)
- 1385: beanfoto (Mar 8, 2002)
- 1386: beanfoto (Mar 15, 2002)
- 1387: Mauritania (Mar 15, 2002)
- 1388: Tonto BA (Hons) (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1389: Mauritania (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1390: Z Phantom (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1391: Xanatic (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1392: Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1393: Tonto BA (Hons) (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1394: Mauritania (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1395: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1396: Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1397: Researcher 188007 (Mar 20, 2002)
- 1398: Mauritania (Mar 21, 2002)
- 1399: beanfoto (Mar 22, 2002)
- 1400: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 22, 2002)
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